Harm Geerts posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 12 Nov 2005 20:34:40 +0100:
> http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/sys-apps/util-linux/util-linux-2.12i-r1.ebuild?rev=1.11&view=markup > Yes, it has been removed. > The comment in the the bug report talks about "Ancient Cruft" :) Bug report? Not @ viewcvs. Besides, the man page calls it "Ancient Cruft" too, but it's still USEFUL cruft! Just the other day, I used it to see what I'm actually compiling into the kernel these days for video mode. I run a patch (applied automatically by a script I have that verifies the gpg sigs, moves the tarball and sig file from my download dir to my kernel tarball dir, unpacks it, changes the /usr/src/linux symlink, applies a couple useful patches, mounts /boot so my current config is available, runs make oldconfig, and unmounts /boot, all with one command, a second script builds and installs the kernel) to change the kernel default, so I don't have to append it to the kernel command line, and I /could/ have looked up the patch, but it was easier to run vidmode on my current kernel to see what it was. Oh, well, it's not a serious issue, just something useful to have around on occasion. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- [email protected] mailing list
